New GDCI research: Mastercard understands what makes a city a destination

The latest Mastercard Global Destination Cities Index (GDCI) has been released today and the results show that Bangkok is the most popular tourist destination with 19.41 million visitors in 2016.

Following Bangkok, top 5 cities are also London, Paris, Dubai and Singapore and they are all expected to experience growth in visitors in 2017.

For the first time, GDCI has negative forecasts (-2,4%) when it comes to number of visitors of New York, while the largest growth in visitors is expected in Osaka (24%)